With intros by John Waters and Mo Willems! The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 is a particularly Snoopy-heavy collection.In addition to seeing the beagle adopt multiple personas,this volume also sees the appearance of what would be Schulz's most controversial major character: Franklin.In Charles Schulz's The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970,Woodstock makes his first appearance,Snoopy is left in the Van Pelt family's care as the Browns vacation...and the Little Red-Haired Girl moves away.
As Peanuts concludes its first decade,a new character makes her appearance:Charlie Brown's little sister Sally.This volume covers her earliest days,from her proud brother's announcement of her birth to her first words (and crush on Linus)!Also: the initial “Great Pumpkin” sequence; Lucy's first appearance as a nickel psychiatrist; Linus's short-lived and one-sided romance with his beloved teacher Miss Othmar; and Snoopy's battle with the doghouse-destroying freeway bypass.All this,plus two of the most famous Peanuts strips of all time: The “clouds“ Sunday that Schulz cites as his personal favorite,and “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
“I have naturally curly hair.“ With those fateful words.THE COMPLETE PEANUTS introduces another main character to the gang,the vain Frieda (not to mention her cat Faron).Also in this volume,which collects two full years from the early 1960s one of Schulz's most fertile periods Sally begins to grow up,Snoopy endures an avian family crisis.Linus develops his erush on Miss Othmar and loses his blanket again(when Lucy turns it into a kite and then lets it fly away),and more basesball routs.Aaaughh!!